When Words Fail: On Practice-Based Art, Design and Education assembles more than one hundred artists, designers, and thinkers to confront a single problem: what happens when language can no longer carry the full weight of knowledge?
About This Book
Conventional academic discourse assumes that knowledge is best expressed in words. This volume disputes that assumption. Gathering contributions from over a hundred practitioners and theorists, it positions visual work, gesture, and form as legitimate and distinct epistemological tools — ways of knowing that do not merely illustrate ideas but generate them. As disciplinary boundaries between art, design, and education continue to dissolve, the contributors collectively test what practice-based research can do that writing cannot. The result is a publication deeply attentive to uncertainty, situated knowledge, and the transformative potential of visual practice in the contemporary moment.
Key Features
- 256 pages of essays, visual works, and critical writings by more than one hundred artists, designers, and thinkers
- Published by Set Margins, 2024
What You'll Discover
- How images, gestures, and forms produce knowledge that language struggles or fails to articulate
- The way practice-based research challenges dominant narratives and disciplinary conventions in art and design education
- How visual work functions not as representation of reality but as an active force in reshaping it
- The critical and transformative possibilities that emerge when over a hundred distinct voices test new tools for understanding experience
About the Author
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Specifications
- Format: Softcover
- Pages: 256
- Dimensions: 12 x 17 cm
- Language: English
- ISBN: 9791221083620
- Publisher: Set Margins
- Publication Date: [Details available upon request]
Perfect For: Art and design educators, practice-based researchers, postgraduate students, and practitioners interested in the epistemological dimensions of visual and design work.